Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Welcome to the TerrorDome
By M. Giant | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 01.23.2005
12:54:10. Wahabist Wolf and TerrorTeen are digging the scene; TerrorDad waits for news on his non-gay, non-dead, non-terrorist son; and Kiefer is showing DoDder photos of all the guys he shot forty-some minutes ago. TerrorGringo doesn't appear to be among them, so DoDder figures he must have left before Kiefer came and did his thing. DoDder makes a "Did you fart?" face. Kiefer didn't, but DoDder remembers where she first saw TerrorGringo: at a Heritage Foundation dinner at the L.A. Hyatt two months ago. She'll get a guest list. Kiefer's summoned into a conference call, and he tells the messenger (who, amazingly enough, is not Special Agent Breck) to get the Hyatt's security tapes from the time DoDder was there. I notice Kiefer doesn't get the heroic theme music when he's only going to a meeting. He tells DoDder he'll be right back and puts a reassuring hand on her shoulder, while Grayadder watches from behind one of those omnipresent glass walls.
Strangely, Wahabist Wolf's white t-shirt is cleaner than it was when we saw him in the back-from-commercial split-screen a minute ago. I suspect the explanation for that will soon become apparent. He takes a water break at 12:55:52. I can't believe they've got the body right out there next to them. That'll be hard to explain if anyone happens along. They should have left it in the trunk until the last minute, so that if anyone comes along they can say that they're just a couple of guys out digging a hole on public property. TerrorTeen gets another look at the gun stuffed in the back of WW's waistband, and he seems to have finally figured out that he's digging his own grave. There's a close-up of him adjusting his grip on the shovel handle before he whirls around and whangs the blade against the back of WW's skull. Awesome! WW goes down groaning, lying facedown and getting the front of his white t-shirt dirty before they've shot the B-roll digging footage (see?). TerrorTeen stands over him, demanding to know what gives. WW pulls his gun, but TerrorTeen clubs it away with the shovel. Slick! TerrorTeen's pissed, since Marwan knows he "took care of" Deaddie. WW says it's not Marwan who wants TerrorTeen dead. He's seems to realize he's said too much, and he clams up until TerrorTeen deals him another solid crack on the noggin. Excellent! Finally WW tells TerrorTeen that the order came from TerrorDad. TerrorTeen doesn't take this news well at all. He reacts by bludgeoning WW's head with the shovel viciously and repeatedly enough that it would look like a watermelon at a Gallagher concert if this weren't broadcast television. Outstanding! TerrorTeen drops the shovel and backs away, tripping over Deaddie's Hefty-bagged head in the process. I love details like that.
As he shrinks into the right half of the screen, he gets into the car and drives off, leaving behind one more corpse than he came with, and both out in the wide open next to a shovel with his fingerprints and another guy's brains all over it. Oh, TerrorTeen. You had me and then you lost me. At upper left, the TerrorMom waits for her turn to be the more evil TerrorParent again, and DiCK is strapped back into his own personal hell at lower left. Whatever he's hiding better be good. I can see him holding out thinking his DaD would be on his side, but now even that hope has been taken away, leaving nothing but a whole lot of angry screaming and chair-dancing and Pollockian squiggles of hair-grease on the walls.